Improvement in calendars



c. z. O'NEILL. GAL'ENDAR.

No.171,308. Patented Dec.21,1876

.JANUARY I876 N.PETERS, PHOTO-LITHOGRAPHER. WASHINGTON. D C.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES Z. QNEILL, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN CALENDARS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. [71,308, dated December 21, 1875; application filed November 2, 1675. V 4

a specification:

The object of my invention is to provide a simple, cheap, and eifectivedevice for holding together the sheets of a calendar; and the invention consists of a thin metal plate bent in 'a circular form, with an opening left for the insertion of the sheets of a calendar, and provided with a suspending device forming a part of the metal holder.

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 repre sents a calendar provided with my device for holding the sheets together, and the'suspending device. Fig. 2 is a vertical transverse section of the same on a reduced scale. Fig. 3 shows the metal plate from which the holder and suspending device are l'ormed.

B O in Fig. 3 represent a flat metal plate of brass orother suitable material, struck out in one piece from a sheet of metal. The portion B is then bent in a circular form with the edges 1) 0 brought nearly together, leaving the portion 0 extending above the center, as shown in Fig.2. A hole is punched in the portion 0, by which the device is suspended.

In attaching the sheets of the calendar to the holder B they are simply inserted in the openingbetween the edges ofthe curved metal plate at one end, and drawn through the same, the elasticity of the metal plate allowing it to yield slightly to receive the sheets and hold them tightly when inserted.

The front sheet may be readily torn off without disturbing the remaining sheets, when.

necessary.

The device is more especially designed for a calendar, but it is equally applicable to holding sheets of paper of any description.

What I claim as my invention, and; desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A paper clamp or suspender made of one piece of metal, having the longitudinal edges of the plate curved toward each other to receive and retain the sheets of paper by the elasticity of the metal, and having the plate partially severed by two slits to form the apertured tongue 0, whereby a means of suspension is provided.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

OHS. Z. ONEILL.

Witnesses J. H. ADAMS, U. V. TUTT. 

